Infrastructure Architect - Database & Storage

Hybrid role (3 days/week in office) at our Burlington, Renton, Spokane, Vancouver, Portland, Medford, Salt Lake City, Boise, Lewiston, or Fargo offices.

Candidates must reside within commutable distance of that location or be willing to relocate.

Who We Are Looking For:

Every day, Cambia's dedicated team of Infrastructure Architects are living our mission to make health care easier and lives better. As a member of the IT Architecture team, Cambia Architects design, secure, and scale our data platforms with a focus on resilience and security. In this role, you will lead the architectural vision for high-availability storage and database systems, ensuring data integrity, robust encryption, and seamless disaster recovery. By embedding deep observability and automated telemetry across the stack, you will give us the real-time visibility needed to proactively defend platform health and guarantee systemic reliability.

Do you have a passion for serving others and learning new things? Then this role may be the perfect fit.

What You Bring to Cambia:

Qualifications:

The Infrastructure Architect I would have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related/relevant field plus seven years in IT with a minimum of two years of technical leadership and architecture experience and a minimum of three years' experience evaluating business requirements and then designing complete systems solutions in in complex environments plus strong business understanding including health insurance technologies and regulations. Experience in the health insurance industry, payer oriented processes and systems is preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

The Infrastructure Architect II would have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related/relevant field with an advanced degree preferred plus seven years in IT with a minimum of two years of technical leadership and architecture experience and at minimum of five years' experience evaluating business requirements and designing complete systems solutions in complex environments plus strong business understanding including health insurance technologies and regulations. Experience in the health insurance industry, payer-oriented processes and systems is preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills and Attributes:

• Demonstrated architecture experience in a single business unit to line of business or single technology field.
• Domain expert in one or more major platform and relevant technologies and how those platforms relate to overall technology infrastructure.
• Possesses comprehensive understanding of competitor's products and related technologies how those products and technologies compare with existing technologies.
• Demonstrated understanding of complex systems integration issues involving many disparate data sources, and experience in resolving them through providing clear direction on scope of solution. Understands and resolves highly complex large scale or systems level problems. Able to quickly and efficiently solve such problems using team resources to coordinate solutions.
• Proficient at writing code to solve a broad range of problems of varying complexity.
• Demonstrated functional and technical skills including the ability to architect effective solutions for a growing Software as a Service company.
• Knowledge of Archimate and TOGAF, or equivalent frameworks.
• Ability to apply verbal, written and persuasive communication skills to influence others both individually and groups.
• Proficient in utilization of audio/visual tools to effectively present to groups and capable of communicating technical information to other functions or groups both inside and outside of the organization.
• Ability to successfully influence and lead project direction and work with peers to implement ideas and concepts.
• Ability to work with business in their language to support and promote concepts.
• Demonstrated high levels of personal output and ability to increase the productivity of architecture function.
• Demonstrated interpersonal savvy, relates well to all kinds of people in the organization regardless of level, establishes trust and constructive relationships.
• Demonstrated excellent problem-solving skills and uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.
• Demonstrated good decision quality, makes sound decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment.
• Capable of leading multiple product teams to implement product strategies throughout engineering. Ability to actively support and influence product family objectives.
• Demonstrated leadership skills for large projects in a technological field with a high emphasis on communicative and interpersonal relationship skills is required.
• Demonstrated excellent negotiations skills with both internal and external groups including ability to settle differences with a minimum of noise and a maximum level of diplomacy and tact. Includes ability to influence without direct authority

What You Will Do at Cambia:

• Architectural Vision & Technical Strategy - Lead the architectural vision for resilient database and storage infrastructure across multiple product teams and deployment environments spanning cloud-native, on-premises, and hybrid configurations. Set technical strategy for high-availability systems that power core business operations, and champion new technology implementations from initiation through successful maintenance hand-off.
• End-to-End Solution Design - Design and own comprehensive database and storage solutions based on project requirements, reference architectures, and design patterns - including transactional database design, storage architecture, performance tiering strategies, encryption, backup planning, and disaster recovery with clearly defined RTO and RPO targets.
• Resiliency, High Availability & Cyber Recovery - Establish and maintain enterprise standards for resiliency across all deployment environments, defining fault-tolerance patterns, failover strategies, and high-availability configurations. Define standards for replication, immutability, cyber vaults, ransomware recovery, and disaster recovery integration to ensure core business systems consistently meet uptime commitments and reduce operational and cyber risk.
• Observability & Performance Management - Embed deep observability and automated telemetry across database and storage infrastructure to provide unified, real-time visibility into platform health. Proactively identify and resolve performance, availability, and integrity risks before they impact business operations across any deployment environment.
• Security & Compliance - Ensure database and storage infrastructure adheres to organizational and regulatory security standards by designing and implementing controls including encryption at rest and in transit, network segmentation, role-based access controls, and audit logging. Partner with Information Security teams to proactively identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Capacity Planning & Forecasting - Conduct thorough capacity planning assessments for storage, compute, and networking resources, ensuring infrastructure is appropriately sized for both new project demands and evolving existing environments. Develop forecasting models to anticipate growth and prevent performance bottlenecks before they impact operations.
• Reference Architecture & Governance - Develop and maintain reference architectures that establish standardized, repeatable patterns for database and storage infrastructure design. Serve as the storage and database architecture authority for major infrastructure projects and data center modernization efforts - reviewing designs, evaluating emerging technologies, and ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards for performance, availability, security, and supportability.
• Technology Roadmaps - Identify, evaluate, and maintain technology roadmaps for database and storage platforms, tools, and services. Monitor industry trends, vendor developments, and emerging technologies to ensure infrastructure remains modern, supportable, and aligned with long-term business objectives, including storage modernization, scalability, and lifecycle planning.
• Enterprise Architecture Alignment - Engage with the Enterprise Architecture team as the subject matter expert and primary point of contact for database and storage infrastructure concerns. Ensure strategies, standards, and roadmaps align with broader enterprise architecture principles, and actively participate in governance forums, design reviews, and strategic planning initiatives.
• Delivery Excellence & Project Oversight - Accurately estimate resources and timelines for database and storage infrastructure implementations. Audit project status to ensure technical and process excellence, and maintain high standards for data integrity and system reliability throughout delivery.

Pay ranges vary based on the candidate's work location. The expected hiring range depends on skills, experience, education, and training; relevant licensure / certifications; and performance history.

Infrastructure Architect I

• Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Idaho: The expected hiring range is $114K - $143K, the full salary range is $114K - $186K, and the bonus target is 15%. North Dakota: The expected hiring range is $113K - $150K, and the full hiring range is $113K - $187K/year.

Infrastructure Architect II

• Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Idaho: The expected hiring range is $140K - $175K, the full salary range is $140K - $228K, and the bonus target is 20%.
• North Dakota: The expected hiring range is $130K - $171K, and the full hiring range is $130K - $214K/year.

We are happy to offer work from home options for most of our roles. To take advantage of this flexible option, we require employees to have a wired internet connection that is not satellite or cellular and internet service with a minimum upload speed of 5Mb and a minimum download speed of 10 Mb.

As part of our security requirements, new hires will need access to a personal mobile device to set up Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) upon joining the company. MFA is an important layer of protection for accessing Cambia systems and is required for all employees.